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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting FTP prompt Post 302510502 by bakunin on Monday 4th of April 2011 08:38:10 AM
Old 04-04-2011
Quote:
Originally Posted by LiorAmitai
Code:
"Local directory now /home/YAFFA"

The short (and probably unsatisfying) answer is: you can't - at least you can't using a standard ftp client. There might be more powerful ftp-clients out there, but using them will make your solution dependant on these and hence less portable.

You could use a different protocol with better clients as zaxxon already mentioned which would have the additional advantage of avoiding the quite unreliable and intrinsically unsecure ftp-protocol. I'd recomment scp because it uses SSL and you don't have to write passwords in plain text to the disk (neither you don't have to use them over the network). What's more it is even easier to use in scripts too.

I hope this helps.

bakunin
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LEARN ABOUT SUNOS

ftp

ftp(4)								   File Formats 							    ftp(4)

NAME

       ftp - FTP client configuration file

SYNOPSIS

       /etc/default/ftp

DESCRIPTION

       Use  the ftp file to configure the behavior of the FTP client. Lines that begin with a hash symbol ("# ") are treated as comment  lines and
       are ignored.

   Behavior Directives
       The ftp file supports the following behavior directives:

       FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST=yes | no

	   The ls command of the ftp client sends an NLST to the FTP Server by default. Several non-Solaris clients send LIST instead. In order to
	   make the Solaris ftp client send LIST when the ls command is issued, set FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST to no. The value of FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST is yes
	   by default.

       If the user sets a value for FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST in the user's environment, this value will override any FTP_LS_SENDS_NLST directive that	is
       specified in /etc/default/ftp.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5)  for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWbipr			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       ftp(1), attributes(5)

SunOS 5.10							    22 Oct 2002 							    ftp(4)
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